The Pittsburg Purple Dragons volleyball squad returns six players with starting experience from last season for fourth-year head coach Ashlen Riggs. Junior outside hitters Erin O’Connell and Alycia Cosens, senior middle blocker Rileigh Manuel and sophomore middle Onna Jorge, sophomore right side / outside hitter Ivery Watts and junior libero Hailey Gray are the returning players, and junior setter Heather Mowdy has worked her way into the varsity mix. Riggs said that her probable starting lineup at the start of the season will be Mowdy at setter, O’Connell and freshman Erika Maxwell on the outside, Watts at right side, Manuel and Jorge as middle blockers and Gray as libero.